Re: Latest analog joystick code

[Vojtech P. <vo...@su...>]

On Wed, May 31, 2000 at 02:56:36PM -0400, James Simmons wrote:
> 
> > First, I digged out a very old original IBM design NS558 based gameport,
> > and my 5 years old QuickShot QS-201 analog joystick, cleaned the
> > joystick thoroughly, applied some special contact cleaning and contact
> > care sprays to all the pots in the joystick, and silicone grease to all
> > bearings.
> 
> Can I use my commodore joystick with linux? Only kidding.

Well, the QS-201 is a PC joystick, but *YES* you can use your commodore
joystick with Linux. :) Actually it's supported by the gamecon.c, db9.c and
turbografx.c. And the commodore-to-parallel adapters are easy to build.

> On the serious
> side are converters from SUN keyboards to parallel port avaliable or do I
> have to build one myself? I obtained a keyboard from a old IPX workstation
> that went into the trash. 

You'll have to build it yourself. I know of no manufacturers that would
be producing them.

> As for CVS. I refined the fbdev API a little more after much talk about
> ideas on how to handle it on the fbdev list. Pretty much everything should
> compile and work for you. Their might be some bugs here and their with all
> the drivers being cleaned up. I applied a nice patch Petr posted on the
> lkml mailing list. If you have SMP machines please test it. I don't have a
> SMP machine so I can't. 

Btw, there is one little, but annoying bug that disabling 'Extended
terminal emulation' makes the kernel uncompilable ...

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Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs